THE THREE COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA; THEIR PASTURES, COPPER MINES, AND GOLD MINES
by Sidney, Samuel
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co, 1860. Hardcover. Good Plus. Octavo, 7.6 in. x 5 in., pp. 408. Illustrated with hand-solored frontispiece and nine additional engravings. Ex-universiy library book with usual markings and de-accension stamp. Textured brown cloth boards with ealborate frame design; library tape to spine. Handwritten title and library filng number in white to spine. Hinges and spine tight. Light spotting to frontis and title page. Light age-toning to pages. Samuel Sidney was the pseudonym of Samuel Solomon (1813 - 1883), an English writer who treated the widely varied fields of agriculture and animal husbandry, railways, and emigration to Australia...Sidney's output on the subject of Australia was probably occasioned by his brother John's experiences there from around 1838 to 1843. The brothers' Australian Hand-Book sold around 7,000 copies. Sidney's 1852 book The Three Colonies of Australia sold 5,000 copies in its first year.. These were very good sales for the time. In addition to books, Sidney edited and published Sidney's Emigrants Journal and later the monthly Sidney's Emigrant's Journal and Traveller's Magazine.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86948
- Title
- THE THREE COLONIES OF AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA; THEIR PASTURES, COPPER MINES, AND GOLD MINES
- Author
- Sidney, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- C. M. Saxton, Barker & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1860
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